Manual save?

[HalfChaos]

I Fig backed this game. I love this game, I'm so happy it's finally out. But for the love of God why would you ever release a game without a way to save it?!

Sometimes I want to reboot, or update my graphics card, or answer the phone, and it's like "Sorry your last save was 1 minute ago" and I'm like "I got a psy-challenge marker 30 seconds ago, LET ME SAVE!"

Aaaaaugh. Guess it's just gonna run in the background all the time, manually uping the playtime average... was this the plan? Not cool.

[RHICTKY]

Just change areas. The game saves every time you enter a new zone. Also, one minute? Come on, that's hardly worth worrying about. It's not like you lost an entire levels worth of progress.

[HalfChaos]

Originally posted by RHICTKY:

Just change areas. The game saves every time you enter a new zone. Also, one minute? Come on, that's hardly worth worrying about. It's not like you lost an entire levels worth of progress.

Okay imagine you spend hours getting some collectible, or getting to some difficult place and then you immediately go to save, but your last save way before the thing.

This isn't "It took me 1 minute to do the thing" it's "I finally did the thing less than a minute ago."

If I beat Sans in Undertale and it takes me hours but I go to save and it says "Last saved 1 minute ago" and I beat sans 30 second ago then yes, I DID loose a lot of progress, thank you.

[bloopah]

Originally posted by RHICTKY:

Just change areas. The game saves every time you enter a new zone. Also, one minute? Come on, that's hardly worth worrying about. It's not like you lost an entire levels worth of progress.

imagine trying to argue against manual saving

[eglepe]

Definitely a very strange design decision

[charliecat]

either switching between the otto bon fast travel or exiting out of brain with smelling salts (to be safe using the otto bon after) seems to quick save as far as I discovered. Some of us can't play for infinite hours and this info is useful, I was frustrated by lack of manual saves as well :/

[oldladygreybun]

I only just bought this and started playing today. I'm a very slow player and already miss the possibility of manual saving.
I just finished in one room and opened a "tooth zipper" into a different room and thought that would trigger an autosave. But no. Trying to quit now it says it's been half an hour since the last save. Which I wasn't really wanting to redo.

I see someone else in this thread talks about being able to trigger autosave by using a "fast travel" function.
Can someone please explain to me how that works (in simple language, please, for this old lady) ?!

[tripbillie]

oldladygreybun - It sounds like you're in the first mind. Fast travel/smelling salts aren't available yet for you.

I believe the game also saves after cutscenes - full video no controls cutscenes.